I now live in Nottingham in semi-retirement. This means doing much the same as when I was 64 but with a state pension and tiny private pension as well. In 1970 I got a 1st in Economics at Nottingham University – and then in 1974 an M.Phil. for a thesis on a Marxist approach to the economic development of India. This led to a varied career working with mainly community projects both in the UK and abroad. In 2003 John Jopling of Feasta followed a suggestion of Richard Douthwaite's and invited me to a yearly group discussion by the sea – at Rossbeigh in Kerry. I have been going virtually every year since then and have spent much of my spare time involved in the ecological and economics discussions of Feasta, particularly in its climate work. After Richard's passing I stepped into part of a teaching role that he had had at Dublin City University teaching on a degree in Religion and Ecology. This teaching led, in turn, to this book.
Anticipating the Coming of Troubles – Envisaging a Lifeboat Economy
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Perhaps in the years and decades to come the meaning of what is happening will dawn on those whose world is collapsing and conditions will mature sufficiently for sweeping political changes. In the meantime permacultural designs of local cultivation space and residential areas, ways to create soils, grow trees that absorb carbon, re-discover new forms of living and organising may become possible providing an example to those who have otherwise lost just about everything and who are seeking to find a way to start again…..
The Climate Crisis and Economic Policy Choices
By Brian Davey, Feasta
A major issue in climate economics is whether it is possible to halt the growth in carbon emissions and to achieve, instead, a rapid reduction.
Prejudice, Ignorance and Granfalloons – Society in the Trump Era
By Brian Davey, Resilience.org
But what does it mean to say that a society becomes “more complex”?
Living in Unpredictable Times
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Economists make forecasts about what is going to happen in the world of that great God – money.
Georgist Macro-Economics and the Land Value Tax
By Brian Davey, Feasta
The ideas of Henry George are still very relevant for economic theory.
Marginal Productivity Theory
By Brian Davey
Economists tell us how consumers on the market, “voting” with their purchasing power got what they wanted and wealthy landowners got the economic theory that they wanted.
Who are the Parasites? The Radical Implications of Classical Economics
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Henry George and Karl Marx developed alternative radical theories out of the ideas of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
Fantasies of “Socialism with an iPad”?: Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Review
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Sometimes you read a book that helps to crystalize your thinking, not because you agree with it, but because you don’t.